Protecting child victims of crime, and others from media exposure

Gushwell Brooks spoke to Director at the Centre for child law, Prof Ann Skelton about Protecting child victims of crime, and others, from further harm and exposure from the media. The law currently protects the identity of child witnesses and child offenders who are involved in criminal cases. In recent years, the media has begun to interpret the protections offered by this law as ending when the child turns 18 years old. The media threatened to reveal the identity of kidnap victim Zephany Nurse, and an urgent application had to be brought to prevent that from happening. for more info: http://www.centreforchildlaw.co.za/